Sunday, December 22nd 2024

AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT Reference Design Leaked?

These are possibly the first pictures of the reference-design AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT graphics card. The pics surfaced on Reddit by a user who claimed to have access to an investor presentation that features images of the card placed next to an AMD Ryzen 9 PIB retail box. The card's design looks quite similar to MSI's Ventus 3X—a silver baseplate frames inlets to a triple fan setup, which cools a heatsink underneath. This is a fairly large card, roughly the size of a reference RX 7900 XT. The dark background accent which the silver plate contrasts, features a front-facing illuminated Radeon logo. This card is designed to look better when installed in a vertical slot, than it is with a standard installation.

The Radeon RX 8800 XT is expected to be the fastest SKU available from the generation, as AMD has ceded the enthusiast segment to focus on high-volume performance and mainstream market segments. The RX 8800 XT is based on the "Navi 48" silicon, and is powered by the RDNA 4 graphics architecture. Besides incorporating many of the graphics stack enhancements RDNA 3.5 introduced over RDNA 3, RDNA 4 is expected to improve the SIMD IPC, and come with a highly specialized ray tracing hardware solution that reduces the performance cost of ray tracing. It is also expected to implement a newer foundry node.
Sources: SubtleSerenity (Reddit), VideoCardz
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20 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT Reference Design Leaked?

#1
katzi


it's an air cooler..
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#2
yfn_ratchet
Looks like a major throwback to the mid-late 2010s in terms of design philosophy, at least from the bottom like this. Maybe it looks sexier and more 2020s from the side/backplate? Honestly though, I wouldn't mind if they looked a little retro. Funky, but endearing.
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#3
Legacy-ZA
I liked the 7900GRE offering, it has good performance at a price that was acceptable. Let's see if they can continue this trend.

Both nGreedia and AMD forgot, that there is no longer a lockdown that created scarcity nor are there miners gobbling them all up by the palit. Intel has done well so far, good showing team blue, always looking forward to what comes out of your camp, well, so far, as long as you keep up the good work, don't pull a team red/green or you too will have cards on shelves collecting dust.
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#4
AcE
Now that’s a good looking card. Typical AMD design reminiscent of RX 6000 line.
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#5
dj-electric
This looks as if Sapphire was responsible for the design (which wouldn't be a first)
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#6
L0stS0ul
The last project from the RDNA famil. The question is whether this means -a project where they threw everything they could squeeze before UDNA? Or maybe AMD didn't really apply themselves to the work? Adding AI capabilities is ok, but let's hope (PC) graphics cards don't fade into the background for AMD and Nvidia. Maybe new R9 290X :respect:
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#7
Neo_Morpheus
yfn_ratchetLooks like a major throwback to the mid-late 2010s in terms of design philosophy, at least from the bottom like this. Maybe it looks sexier and more 2020s from the side/backplate? Honestly though, I wouldn't mind if they looked a little retro. Funky, but endearing.
I wouldn’t mind if they brought back the logo in the Cube:

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#8
AusWolf
That's quite a size for a supposedly 220 Watt card. I hope at least it'll run a lot cooler and quieter than my 6750 XT.
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#10
Sabotaged_Enigma
It'd better be good. I'm quite looking forward to it.
btw how many slots is it? 2.5 to 3 slots?
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#11
_roman_
AusWolfThat's quite a size for a supposedly 220 Watt card. I hope at least it'll run a lot cooler and quieter than my 6750 XT.
The card size, fan numbers, slot size and cooler size are no indication for "quiet" operation. (e.g. worse card: I had a MSI Radeon 6800 Z Trio card which was badly designed and made. 3 fan design with rgb light bar with big cooler - very, very loud)

I bought my Powercolor 7800XT Hellhound for it'S review quiet performance on several websites. The difference is very, very big. I paid extra premium for that.

-- As I still have 12 months warranty left, I'm most likely not allowed to improve the thermalpaste.

I hope the performance is similar, so the value of my existing card does not drop.
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#12
dj-electric
AusWolfThat's quite a size for a supposedly 220 Watt card. I hope at least it'll run a lot cooler and quieter than my 6750 XT.
The irony here is that this is in part due to NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti+ designs, which basically molded a new type of form factor as standard among graphics cards, which we have seen repurposed for RX 7800 XT+ graphics cards from various AIC vendors. What they did was essentially repurpose and fit similar designs for cards without particularly high TDPs. This was a move that convinced the market that its ok for cards to be this large as long as they get as cool and as quiet as current standards dictate they should.
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#13
ZoneDymo
Neo_MorpheusI wouldn’t mind if they brought back the logo in the Cube:
100% man, I was hoping that cube was a new paradigm for signaling purpose and performance in AMD cards.
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#14
AusWolf
_roman_The card size, fan numbers, slot size and cooler size are no indication for "quiet" operation. (e.g. worse card: I had a MSI Radeon 6800 Z Trio card which was badly designed and made. 3 fan design with rgb light bar with big cooler - very, very loud)
Of course. But one can hope for the best, right? :)
DavenThere is indication that the modeling naming will be completely different.

videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-named-as-possible-rdna4-sku

Here is a better more in-depth article:

videocardz.com/newz/amd-reportedly-preparing-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-rx-9070-gpus-mobile-variants-also-identified
That would be stupid, imo.
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#15
3valatzy
AusWolfThat would be stupid, imo.
Very stupid, because it means they will move to the Nvidia's naming convention, which is also unacceptable.

Why not Radeon AI 370 16K ?
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#16
AusWolf
3valatzyVery stupid, because it means they will move to the Nvidia's naming convention, which is also unacceptable.
Besides, they're not only skipping a number, but also making it impossible to follow with a consequential number in future generations, making yet another naming scheme change necessary.
3valatzyWhy not Radeon AI 370 16K ?
No more AI bullshit, please!:fear:
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#18
3valatzy
AusWolfBesides, they're not only skipping a number, but also making it impossible to follow with a consequential number in future generations, making yet another naming scheme change necessary.
No more AI bullshit, please!:fear:
I am not against "AI" because naturally it is expected that the average joes will like it and buy. Which is still better than Nvidia having 100% market share and full monopoly over the market.

I guess Nvidia is free to enable a class-action law-suit if AMD steals its product numbers.
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#19
Ravenas
Ridiculous that they are skipping the high end segment. The last two generations have produced very good cards at high end, specifically the 7900 XTX and the 6950 XT.

Whats lacking is AI upscaling to compete with Nvidia, not hardware. It’s good to see some of that coming to fruition with PSSR.
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#20
docnorth
Finally a compact mid-range GPU:D. Credit to @AusWolf.

Ok, to be fair, probably upper mid-range.
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